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Top of Mind - Soundwalk, Disease Tolerance, Jerks Don’t Get Ahead
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Soundwalk; Topic 2 - Disease Tolerance; Topic 3 - Jerks Don’t Get Ahead

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 51:39
  • Purchases: 3
NEA Jazz Moments with Club Owner/Advocate, Todd Barkan (round two)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master and owner of the NEW Keystone Korner in Baltimore, Todd Barkan talks about starting Dizzy's Club Coca Cola at JALC, his latin jazz ...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 8
The Speed of Sound: The Verve Pipe
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Did you know that The Verve Pipe celebrated the 20th anniversary of the multi-platinum Villains in 2016? Since that time, the band went on to relea...

Bought by KSUT, KRCB 104.9, and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 02, 2017
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 3
Pushing City Limits: Barton Knaggs
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
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Austin-based entrepeneur Barton Knaggs recounts the first days of the ACL festival, when everything was on the line and nothing was certain.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 04:38
Gentrification versus "Jazzification": Birdland nightclub grows vision to spark jazz district
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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How do neighborhoods develop distinct identities? Why was San Francisco’s North Beach an enclave for poetry, for example? Or the Castro a haven for...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 07:06
An '80s Cover Band With Global Dreams
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: The New Wave Time Trippers rocking white Levis., Credit: Nicky Ouellet
The New Wave Time Trippers are not your typical '80s cover band. For one, they're good. For another, they're dominating a little town so far north,...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
Day Job 1: Bitter Barista
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Matt "Spek" Watson at The Station, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Seattle's Matt Watson performs as a rapper and producer under the name Spekulation. He used to hate his day job serving espresso. After being outed...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, Delmarva Public Media, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 4
David C. Hunt: Rhapsody in Red
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Hunt Cellars: David C. Hunt
Visionary David C. Hunt is a Successful Winemaker, Contractor, Entrepreneur, Inventor, Carpenter, Composer, Musician, Recording Artist, Author and ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 18:11
Flood of Good Will Show
From: Sharon Glassman
Series: Colorado Music Originals
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How do musicians recover from the Colorado flood, Sandy and Katrina? Creatively! Hear from a songwriter going pro in the Colorado flood's wake, a r...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:46
Rumba and the radio
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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If you happen to walk by the Radio Habana Social Club on Valencia Street on a Sunday afternoon, you might hear Rumba, the music of Cuba. Radio Haba...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
Pam McKissick Without Reserve: The Auctioneer's Chant
From: Auction Network Productions
Series: Pam McKissick Without Reserve
Caption: Host Pam McKissick
Host Pam McKissick and her special guests take listeners inside the mysterious world of the Auctioneer's chant and explore the fascinating professi...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:36:23
Never Too Lathe - The World of Lathe-Cut Records
From: Lee Rosevere
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Exploring the world of lathe-cut records - a cost-effective and unique way for struggling musicians the opportunity to get their music on vinyl.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 08:27
29: Loog Guitars
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Loog Guitars are children's guitars done differently.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 14:21
  • Purchases: 1
Secret Stash
From: Radio K
Series: Quick Queue
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International Record label, local address. Minneapolis, in fact.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 1
Sarangi Seller
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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It’s monsoon season now in Nepal and that means few tourists. Street vendors in the capital of Kathmandu are accustomed to the slowdown in sales. ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Rip this band off: Billy & Dolly and the art of giving it away
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Dahlia Gallin Ramirez and Bill Rousseau, Credit: Gabriela Hasbun
What's an unknown band to do after pouring blood, sweat, tears, and its own money into making the most awesome record ever?

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Apr 12, 2010
  • Length: 20:45
  • Purchases: 2
The Rabbit Hutch
From: Big Shed Audio
Series: Place + Memory
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Have you ever eaten Fried Rabbit? Barbecued Rabbit? Rice with Rabbit Gravy? They were standard fare at the Venz Rabbit Hutch Restaurant in Logan, ...

Bought by WBHM, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 3
1. Colin Wolberg, rock star and... panel manufacturer?
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)
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How (Seattle) Musicians Pay the Rent

  • Added: Aug 06, 2008
  • Length: 03:03
Hip-Hop "University"
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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North Carolina based hip-hop artist and his student-run label

  • Added: May 21, 2007
  • Length: 04:41
Kinvara: A Spirit of Place
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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Producer Frank Browning visits an Irish town where economic prosperity has locals wondering how to move forward while keeping their traditions intact.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2006
  • Length: 10:36
Size Isn't Everything
From: Shea Shackelford
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Joel Eckhaus makes and plays ukuleles in South Portland, Maine.

Bought by WMPG and WBHM


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 2
The Power of Song
From: Sandra Sleight-Brennan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In Athens, Ohio the ATCO Sheltered Workshop for developmentally disabled adults is making money - and art! Their 'outsider art' made $100,000 last ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2004
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 1
I Can't Get It Out of My Head
From: Richard Paul
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Why advertising jingles get lodged in your brain

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, WFUV, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jan 18, 2004
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 4